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Drives, Connectors, Controls and lights – Dell XPS/Dimension XPS Gen 3 User Manual

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connector size

36 pins

connector data width (maximum)

1 PCI Express lane

 

 

PCI Express

 

connectors

one x16

connector size

164 pins

connector data width (maximum)

16 PCI Express lanes

 

 

Drives

Externally accessible:

 

two 3.5-inch drive bays

two 5.25-inch drive bays

Available devices

Serial ATA drive, floppy drive, USB memory devices,
CD drive, CD-RW drive, DVD drive, DVD-RW drive, and
DVD and CD-RW combo drive

Internally accessible:

 

two bays for 1-inch high hard drives

Connectors

External connectors:

Serial

9-pin connector; 16550C-compatible

Parallel

25-hole connector (bidirectional)

IEEE 1394

front-panel 6-pin serial connector

Video

15-hole connector

Network adapter

RJ45 connector

PS/2 (keyboard and mouse)

two 6-pin mini-DIN

USB

two front-panel and six back-panel USB 2.0–
compliant connectors

Audio

five connectors for line-in, line-out, microphone,
surround, and center/Low Frequency Effects (LFE)
channel; two front-panel connectors for headphones
and microphones

System board connectors:

Primary IDE drive

40-pin connector on PCI local bus

Serial ATA

four 7-pin connectors

Floppy drive

34-pin connector

Fan

5-pin connector

PCI 2.3

four 120-pin connectors

PCI Express x1

36-pin connector

PCI Express x16

164-pin connector

Telephony (TAPI)

4-pin connector

Controls and Lights

Power control

push button

Power light

green light — Blinking green in sleep state; solid
green for power-on state

amber light — Blinking amber indicates a problem
with an installed device; solid amber indicates an
internal power problem (See "

Power Lights

.")

Hard-drive access light

green

Link integrity light (on integrated network adapter)

green light — A good connection exists between a
10-Mbps network and the computer.

orange light — A good connection exists between a
100-Mbps network and the computer.

yellow light — A good connection exists between a 1
GB (or 1000-Mbps) network and the computer.

off (no light) — The computer is not detecting a
physical connection to the network.

Activity light (on integrated network adapter)

yellow blinking light

Diagnostic lights

four lights on the back panel (See "

Diagnostic

Lights

.")

Standby power light

AUX_PWR on the system board